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1843 plan of Gloucester County Gaol

SR539/54197GS Causton’s Map of Gloucester, 1843

The large three-storey building was ranged around three wings (termed ‘quadrangles’) and housed a gaol, penitentiary and house of correction; with a gatehouse on the east side perimeter wall.  It could hold a total of 207 prisoners, divided according to gender and crime.  In 1826, the perimeter walls were extended east to the Barbican Road and a new debtors' prison was built with a new gatehouse being built in the north-east part of the wall, opening on the Castle Lane approach.